Using Turborepo with CircleCI

The following example shows how to use Turborepo with CircleCI.

For a given root package.json:

{
  "name": "my-turborepo",
  "scripts": {
    "build": "turbo run build",
    "test": "turbo run test"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "turbo": "1.2.5"
  }
}

And a turbo.json:

{
  "$schema": "https://turborepo.org/schema.json",
  "baseBranch": "origin/main",
  "pipeline": {
    "build": {
      "dependsOn": ["^build"],
      "outputs": []
    },
    "test": {
      "dependsOn": ["^build"],
      "outputs": []
    },
  }
}

Create a file called .circleci/config.yml in your repository with the following contents:

Remote Caching#

To use Remote Caching with CircleCI, add the following environment variables to your CircleCI workflow to make them available to your turbo commands.

• TURBO_TOKEN - The Bearer token to access the Remote Cache
• TURBO_TEAM - The account to which the monorepo belongs

To use Vercel Remote Caching, you can get the value of these variables in a few steps:

1. Create a Scoped Access Token to your account in the Vercel Dashboard

Copy the value to a safe place. You'll need it in a moment.

2. Go to your CircleCI project settings and click on the Environment Variables tab. Create a new secret called TURBO_TOKEN and enter the value of your Scoped Access Token.

3. Make a second secret called TURBO_TEAM and enter the value of your team's Vercel URL (or if you're on Hobby, your personal URL works as well). Do not include the https://vercel.com/ part, only the slug.

4. At the top of your CircleCI workflow, provide the following environment variables to jobs that use turbo:

# ...
jobs:
  test:
    docker:
      - image: cimg/node:lts
    environment:
      TURBO_TOKEN: $TURBO_TOKEN
      TURBO_TEAM: $TURBO_TEAM
    steps:
      # ...